Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center

描述(由申请者提供)：健康青年发展预防研究中心(UMN PRC)的使命是与卫生部门、相关机构和社区合作伙伴合作，开发和传播可操作的知识和做法，促进所有年轻人的健康发展和健康公平。我们的具体工作计划反映了我们的具体目标，包括利用跨学科研究、培训、社区教育、助教、能力建设、战略传播和评估，以在第二个十年期间及以后建设健康、能力和能力，并在与青年人合作和代表青年人工作的伙伴中建设能力。我们的长期目标集中于扩展科学知识和增加循证公共卫生项目的使用，以推进国家健康议程，如《2020年健康人》S以青少年为重点的目标(7个优先领域中的5个)所反映的那样，促进国家预防战略中阐明的健康公平，并解决疾控中心与青少年相关的可赢之战(即生殖健康)。UMN PRC的核心项目，合作促进健康的学生结果(PHSO)是一项针对明尼阿波利斯-圣彼得堡不同文化背景、经济困难的中学学生的以学校为基础的社会情绪学习(SEL)预防计划的相对有效性的比较研究。明尼苏达州保罗市都会区。我们的主要研究问题是：一个旨在提高中学教师团队参与学生学习能力的多年、以学校为基础的预防计划，旨在提高中学教师团队参与学习的能力，是否会在中学生的健康危险行为和学习成绩方面产生超过仅以学校为基础的以学生为中心的预防计划的结果？这项研究有两个主要目标：第一个主要目标：开展一项初步研究，以确定以学校为基础的SEL+PD(积极行动+教师团队专业发展和支持)计划的可行性和可接受性，该计划旨在减少中学生的健康危险行为(暴力、欺凌、药物使用、性危险行为)，并提高学业成绩；主要目标2：实施SEL+教师团队专业发展计划，并与单独的SEL计划相比，评估其对学生结果的有效性。我们将在一个配对的随机试验中对这两种情况进行评估，该试验涉及4所城市中学的大约840名学生，涉及3个学年。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center (UMN PRC) is to collaborate with health departments, related agencies and community partners to develop and disseminate actionable knowledge and practices that promote healthy development and health equity among all young people. Our specific aims, reflected in our unit-specific work plans, include the use of interdisciplinary research, training, community education, TA, capacity-building, strategic communications, and evaluations to build health, competence, and capacity throughout the second decade of life and beyond, and to build capacity in partners working with and on behalf of young people. Our long-term objectives focus on expansion of scientific knowledge and increased use of evidence-based public health programs that advances the national health agenda as reflected in Healthy People 2020's adolescent-focused goals (5 of 7 priority areas), promotes health equity as articulated in the National Prevention Strategy, and addresses CDC adolescent-related Winnable Battles (i.e., reproductive health). The UMN PRC core project, Partnering for Healthy Student Outcomes (PHSO) is a comparative study of the relative effectiveness of a school-based, social-emotional learning (SEL) prevention program for students attending culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged middle schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN metro area. Our primary research question is: Will a multi-year, school-based prevention program, infused with professional development (PD) aimed at increasing the capacity of middle school teacher teams to engage their students in learning, yield changes in middle school students' health risk behaviors and academic outcomes that exceed outcomes from a school-based student-focused prevention program alone? The research has two primary aims: Primary Aim 1: Conduct a pilot study to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a school-based, SEL+PD program (Positive Action plus teacher-team professional development and support) designed to reduce health risk behaviors (violence, bullying, substance use, sexual risk behaviors) and increase academic achievement among middle school students; and Primary Aim 2: Implement a SEL plus teacher-team professional development program and evaluate its effectiveness on student outcomes compared to a SEL program alone. We will evaluate the two conditions in a matched pairs, randomized trial involving approximately 840 students in 4 urban middle level schools across 3 school years.